I dreamed

I Dreamed I Played Guitar in Italy

I Dreamed I Was in Siena

I Dreamed I Was in the Swiss Alps

I Dreamed I Went to a Wedding in Croatia

I Dreamed I Walked the Walls of the Old City

I Dreamed of the Waters of the Caribbean

I Dreamed I Walked the Streets of Paris

I Dreamed I Saw a Shadow of a Man

I Dreamed I Was in a Church

I Dreamed I Was at an Elegant Spa

I Dreamed I Watched the Sun Set over the Ocean

I Dreamed I Sailed the Adriatic

For the last eleven months the world has been in the grip of a health crisis unlike any experienced in my lifetime. "I Dreamed” is a series of shadow boxes through which I explore the feeling of being trapped at home while struggling to find joy and hope. During the pandemic we have been locked down, our movement has been restricted, and travel has come to a standstill. For months I have barely left my home. I feel a little crazy at times and struggle to hold onto ways to find pleasure.

I have built a small room to embody the space I have been confined to over this period of time. The image in each box shows that space, inhabited by a single empty chair and the traces of those activities to which I look for solace. Through the window of that room, I remember travels as a way of looking to the future. The shadow box itself makes concrete the sense of confinement in this space. Objects from within the images spill into the space of the box and bridge the space of the viewer and that within the image. We all have our ways of coping. One way or another, we seek to bring light into the walls that confine us. With these images, I indulge in small pleasures, and look beyond the walls to memories of past trips and promises of new experiences.